09:30–10:30
Imperfect Risk-Sharing and the Business Cycle
Luigi Bocola (Stanford University)
Joint with David Berger and Alessandro Dovis.
Discussant: Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University)
Conference program
Frontiers in Macroeconomic Research
Co-sponsored with the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, University College London, and Stockholm University.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Morning Session
11:00–12:00
Monetary Policy and the Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Joint with Ben Johansen and Sergio Rebelo.
Discussant: Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics)
12:00–13:00
Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?
Larry Christiano (Northwestern University)
Joint with Husnu Dalgic and Armen Nurbekyan.
Discussant: Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University)
Afternoon Session
14:30–15:30
Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management
Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University)
Joint with Adrien Auclert.
Discussant: Claudio Michelacci (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
15:30–16:30
Second Chance: Life without Student Debt
Marco Di Maggio (Harvard Business School)
Joint with Ankit Kalda and Vincent W. Yao.
Discussant: Saverio Simonelli (university of Naples Federico II and CSEF)
Friday, July 26, 2019
Morning Session
09:30–10:30
Managing Expectations without Rational Expectations
Marios Angeletos (MIT)
Joint with Karthik Sastry.
Discussant: Gaetano Gaballo (Banque de France)
11:00–12:00
Ambiguous Policy Announcements
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
Joint with Claudio Michelacci.
Discussant: Eric Mengus (HEC Paris)
12:00–13:00
Markups and Inequality
Virgiliu Midrigan (New York University)
Joint with Corina Boar.
Discussant: Salomé Baslandze (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
Afternoon Session –
14:30–15:30
Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: monetary policy and business cycles in an estimated HANK model
Adrien Auclert (Stanford University)
Joint with Matt Rognlie and Ludwig Straub.
Discussant: Morten Ravn (University College London)